A new survey found 60% of people have heard of Edward Snowden, but 39% have taken steps to protect their privacy as a result.
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Chances are if you’re reading the Guardian website, you’ve heard of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. But what about the wider world: have others heard of him and his surveillance revelations – and if so, what effect have they had?

Globally, 60% of respondents have heard of Snowden, but only 39% of those people have taken additional steps to protect their online privacy as a result.

However, 62% of all respondents are concerned about government agencies from other countries secretly monitoring their online activities, while 61% are concerned about police or other government agencies from their own country doing this. And 64% of respondents have “some degree of concern” about their online privacy compared to a year ago.

So, one question is why people who’ve heard of Snowden and/or are concerned about online privacy haven’t taken steps: all thoughts welcome on that.

But also, what steps have you personally taken (in the last year or otherwise) to protect your privacy online? If someone was reading the comments thread to this post wondering what they can do, what advice would you give them? The comments are open for your thoughts.

Even now, in 2014, does Apple really get the cloud? A report from The Information suggests otherwise, with sources telling it that the company’s iCloud efforts are still being hampered by not having “a centralised team working on core cloud infrastructure”.

Some figures from the Wall Street Journal on how Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, is doing. It claims the device sold 12m units in its first three months, 4m less than the Galaxy S4, and 40% under internal projections. The report also suggests that changes may be afoot at the top of the company’s mobile division.

Another controversy around taxi-app service Uber, albeit smaller than those of last week. A blog post showing “how where crimes occur — specifically prostitution, alcohol, theft, and burglary — can improve Uber’s demand prediction models” on the company’s data blog was quietly removed.

The latest app controversy concerns Android game Ass Hunter, which racked up more than 10,000 downloads on the Google Play store before being pulled. Why controversy? “Legendary game, where you are hunter and your mission is to kill gays as much as you can or escape between them to the next level,” was its pitch. Unpleasant.

Treadmill videos are so 2006. US band OK Go’s latest album is being released as DNA. “Legally speaking, it’s unclear whether we will be able to sell the DNA to anyone, or how we would physically get it to them,” explains frontman Damian Kulash. “This stuff is regulated really fucking heavily.”